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Post by nautonnier on Feb 3, 2021 12:37:07 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 3, 2021 21:34:33 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 4, 2021 12:36:10 GMT
"Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage
Turning smart homes into dumb ones
Ring is suffering a major outage with many of its video doorbells effectively dead, turning smart homes into very dumb ones.
The issue started just after 9am PST on Wednesday with users reporting that they were unable to see any live video feeds from their devices. Integration with smart assistants also fell over, in what's looking like an unusually wide-ranging failure. Soon after, Amazon-owned Ring reported on its status page that it was investigating the issue.
“We're currently experiencing issues with logging into or loading the Ring app and/or Ring.com, as well as issues starting Live Views or connecting to live video from ding and motion events,” an emergency notice reads.
The outage appears to be widespread. According to Ring’s own status page, it is a system-wide issue with all of its video products impacted (Video Doorbell: Major Outage; StickCam: Major Outage; Spotlight Cam: Major Outage.) That points to a problem with Ring’s backend systems rather than, say, a simple faulty software update for an app."More here> www.theregister.com/2021/02/03/amazon_ring_outage/And in the comments on manual backups (aka door knockers)..... " Re: Online only? That's the idea...
> And isn't annoying when people turn up and use the knocker anyway?
Confuse them by connecting your door knocker to the bell so that as they lift it to knock, the bell rings.
For extra points, connect the bell to the knocker so that when they press the bell, the knocker knocks itself."
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 4, 2021 12:36:32 GMT
"Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage
Turning smart homes into dumb ones
Ring is suffering a major outage with many of its video doorbells effectively dead, turning smart homes into very dumb ones.
The issue started just after 9am PST on Wednesday with users reporting that they were unable to see any live video feeds from their devices. Integration with smart assistants also fell over, in what's looking like an unusually wide-ranging failure. Soon after, Amazon-owned Ring reported on its status page that it was investigating the issue.
“We're currently experiencing issues with logging into or loading the Ring app and/or Ring.com, as well as issues starting Live Views or connecting to live video from ding and motion events,” an emergency notice reads.
The outage appears to be widespread. According to Ring’s own status page, it is a system-wide issue with all of its video products impacted (Video Doorbell: Major Outage; StickCam: Major Outage; Spotlight Cam: Major Outage.) That points to a problem with Ring’s backend systems rather than, say, a simple faulty software update for an app."More here> www.theregister.com/2021/02/03/amazon_ring_outage/And in the comments on manual backups (aka door knockers)..... " Re: Online only? That's the idea...
> And isn't annoying when people turn up and use the knocker anyway?
Confuse them by connecting your door knocker to the bell so that as they lift it to knock, the bell rings.
For extra points, connect the bell to the knocker so that when they press the bell, the knocker knocks itself."
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 4, 2021 15:42:58 GMT
Who is Tony Heller... In the Roy Spencer's blog someone impugned Tony Heller and were sent to realclimatescience.com/who-is-tony-heller/ which is an interesting read. At the end he has this to say.... "Your computer/game consoles work, partly due to my efforts. By contrast, climate science doesn’t work, because it is done largely by dishonest, incompetent hacks who don’t follow or even understand any legitimate methodology."   Too tactful |
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Post by Ratty on Feb 5, 2021 11:40:21 GMT
The Otto Celera 500L is a business and utility light aircraft developed by a startup, Otto Aviation. By August 2020, 31 test flights had been flown, as introduction is targeted for 2023-2025. It has a single RED A03 diesel piston engine in a pusher configuration and can seat six passengers:
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Post by Ratty on Feb 5, 2021 11:51:40 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Feb 5, 2021 15:43:54 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 5, 2021 16:27:36 GMT
When the school system fails. |
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Post by missouriboy on Feb 6, 2021 1:33:16 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 6, 2021 15:13:18 GMT
That could be a life altering situation! |
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Post by Ratty on Feb 6, 2021 16:58:24 GMT
That could be a life mind altering situation! Fixed your mistake, Sig. No charge .....  |
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Post by Ratty on Feb 6, 2021 17:09:05 GMT
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Post by youngjasper on Feb 7, 2021 2:07:20 GMT
The Otto Celera 500L is a business and utility light aircraft developed by a startup, Otto Aviation. By August 2020, 31 test flights had been flown, as introduction is targeted for 2023-2025. It has a single RED A03 diesel piston engine in a pusher configuration and can seat six passengers: The design is smart. The RED engines are fantastic engines. The issues I have are the mass of the engine relative to the HP and the number of moving parts. Compare those metrics to a Pratt & Whitney turbine engine and you'll understand where I'm coming from. But the RED engines are masterpieces! The other issue I have is if this is to replace small jets, I question the appetite of the market. If you are zipping around in small jets, you are not very price sensitive to operating costs, which is what the RED engines and the fluid dynamics of the Celera get you. But the design is smart. The engine is smart. It will be interesting to see where this project goes. |
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Post by nautonnier on Feb 7, 2021 3:11:23 GMT
The Otto Celera 500L is a business and utility light aircraft developed by a startup, Otto Aviation. By August 2020, 31 test flights had been flown, as introduction is targeted for 2023-2025. It has a single RED A03 diesel piston engine in a pusher configuration and can seat six passengers: The design is smart. The RED engines are fantastic engines. The issues I have are the mass of the engine relative to the HP and the number of moving parts. Compare those metrics to a Pratt & Whitney turbine engine and you'll understand where I'm coming from. But the RED engines are masterpieces! The other issue I have is if this is to replace small jets, I question the appetite of the market. If you are zipping around in small jets, you are not very price sensitive to operating costs, which is what the RED engines and the fluid dynamics of the Celera get you. But the design is smart. The engine is smart. It will be interesting to see where this project goes. It is a slot in the market that lots of manufacturers have tried to fill. I worked for several years with the NASA Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS). Many manufacturers were generating aircraft for this market including unlikely ones like Toyota. A small 'on demand' airline even formed using a special cytrix designed aircraft to customer allocation system. But in their excitement they forgot the market assessment exercise. The same is happening with the new(ish) autonomous air taxi systems. Consider you are a senior manager who has the disposable income to fly from the airport to downtown for $500+ instead of the $30 for a taxi. The aircraft you are going to fly in is around the size of a BMW 3 series. You are allowed small carry on but not a rollaboard and definitely not your hold luggage. So as you fly you are going to be literally shoulder to shoulder with similar senior managers from other companies. So now Otto aviation wants to put you in an aircraft a little larger still with no 'toilet' and fly for several HOURS? So the senior manager has been waiting for the aircraft for 90 minutes in the bar and after 45 minutes airborne from Seattle is going to have a few used G&T's to dump saying that it is another 5 hours before we reach a toilet at Tampa does not answer the problem. Nice look. Nice aerodynamics and engineering. But it fills a niche that does not exist demonstrating a lack of systems analysis. |
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